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This will take a real Win10 lover.

Indexing problem.

The Indexing Options GUI has a message "Waiting to receive indexing
status ...".
The indexed locations are blank, "Modify" and "Pause" are greyed out,
and when I hit "Advanced" the thing crashes.
This is a brand new computer, only set-up 3 days ago from preloaded OEM
Win10, onto which (after a little removal of bundled garbage) I loaded
Win10 1083 from DVD. I don't know if the indexing was working before
that. The Windows.edb file is dated set-up date, 25GB but empty.

Everything else is beautiful and smooth.
Things I've tried
1. Memory scan, HD scan, several AVs - all excellent; including
individual ones of the SearchIndex progs in Win32 and the DB in Appdata.
2. SFC/ SCANNOW - 100% violation free.
3. Checked Services; Windows Search depends on;
Remote Procedure Call (RPC), which includes;
DCOM Server Process Launcher
RPC Endpoint Mapper
All up and running.
4. Tried all three index rebuild methods mentioned herein;
https://goo.gl/zNxrWZ
5. Checked that indexing is working OK on two other boxes running 1803;
and it is on both.
6. Analysed the DB file with Windows Search Index Analyser
(http://www.edbsearch.com/freetrial.html), and the file seems empty.
7. Deleted Windows.edb, restarted, not recreated although the Services
are running and the program is in memory.
8. Googled a lot without success.

Ed

Search was giving me weird problems recently too. I found
this article that fixed it by, apparently, forcing a re-
install. You set a registry key that indicates that Search
setup failed. It will get re-installed after you reboot.
It wipes the existing index however.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/window...h-indexer-not-
working